Quotes by Malcolm X

Quotes by Malcolm XMalcolm X quotes,the best collection of Famous Quotes by Malcolm X,Interesting and memorable Quotes by Malcolm X&ldquo;You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. &rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;We’re not Americans, we’re Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock – that rock landed on us.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition…for the right to live as free humans in this society.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;We declare our right on this earth…to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Twenty-two million African-Americans – that’s what we are – Africans who are in America.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Truth is on the side of the oppressed.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;They don’t stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;There is nothing in our book, the Qur’an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity…. We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;The zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;The price of freedom is death.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti… Cuba – yes Cuba too.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he’s within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don’t think he’ll be by himself.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Stumbling is not falling.&rdquo;&mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Respect me, or put me to death.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;My alma mater was books, a good library&hellip; I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Let me tell you a little story. It’s like being in a wolf’s den. The wolf sees someone on the outside who is interested in freeing me from the den. The wolf doesn’t like that person on the outside. But I don’t care who opens the door and lets me out.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;It is not a case of our people…wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don’t seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;It doesn’t mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don’t call it violence when it’s self-defense, I call it intelligence.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;In every backward country you’ll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don’t have education.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I’m the man you think you are…. If you want to know what I’ll do, figure out what you’ll do. I’ll do the same thing — only more of it.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;If we don’t stand for something, we may fall for anything.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I want Dr. King to know that I didn&rsquo;t come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King.&rdquo; &mdash; in a conversation with Mrs. Coretta Scott King. &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I think you’ll find, brother, that there are Muslims everywhere. Wherever you find militancy today among so-called Negroes, watch real closely. You’re liable to be looking at a Muslim.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn’t try and see him as he actually was.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else&rsquo;s control. I feel that what I&rsquo;m thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I don’t mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I’m nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you’ve made me go insane, and I’m not responsible for what I do.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I don’t favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I’m also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I’m not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn’t know how to return the treatment.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don’t believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I am neither a fanatic nor a dreamer. I am a black man who loves peace, and justice, and loves his people.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I am a Muslim, because it’s a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;I always knew it would end like this.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I’ve seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn&rsquo;t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn&rsquo;t know what you know today.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.&rdquo;&mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;Anytime you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren’t.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;An integrated cup of coffee isn’t sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.&rdquo;&mdash; Malcolm X quotes&ldquo;A ballot is like a bullet. You don’t throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not in reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.&rdquo; &mdash; Malcolm X quotes

Malcolm X quotes,the best collection of Famous Quotes by Malcolm X,Interesting and memorable Quotes by Malcolm X

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. ” — Malcolm X quotes

“You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.” — Malcolm X quotes

“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.” — Malcolm X quotes

“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” — Malcolm X quotes

“We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock – that rock landed on us.” — Malcolm X quotes

“We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition…for the right to live as free humans in this society.” — Malcolm X quotes

“We declare our right on this earth…to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.” — Malcolm X quotes

“We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.” — Malcolm X quotes

“We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Twenty-two million African-Americans – that's what we are – Africans who are in America.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.” — Malcolm X quotes

“True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.” — Malcolm X quotes

“They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.” — Malcolm X quotes

“They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.” — Malcolm X quotes

“There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery.” — Malcolm X quotes

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.” — Malcolm X quotes

“There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity…. We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.” — Malcolm X quotes

“The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.” — Malcolm X quotes

“The price of freedom is death.” — Malcolm X quotes

“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti… Cuba – yes Cuba too.” — Malcolm X quotes

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X quotes

“The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Stumbling is not falling.”— Malcolm X quotes

“Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Respect me, or put me to death.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.” — Malcolm X quotes

“My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Let me tell you a little story. It's like being in a wolf's den. The wolf sees someone on the outside who is interested in freeing me from the den. The wolf doesn't like that person on the outside. But I don't care who opens the door and lets me out.” — Malcolm X quotes

“It is not a case of our people…wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.” — Malcolm X quotes

“It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.” — Malcolm X quotes

“It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.” — Malcolm X quotes

“It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.” — Malcolm X quotes

“In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.” — Malcolm X quotes

“In every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I'm the man you think you are…. If you want to know what I'll do, figure out what you'll do. I'll do the same thing — only more of it.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” — Malcolm X quotes

“If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.” — Malcolm X quotes

“If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I want Dr. King to know that I didn’t come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King.” — in a conversation with Mrs. Coretta Scott King. — Malcolm X quotes

“I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else’s control. I feel that what I’m thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!” — Malcolm X quotes

“I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I am neither a fanatic nor a dreamer. I am a black man who loves peace, and justice, and loves his people.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.” — Malcolm X quotes

“I always knew it would end like this.” — Malcolm X quotes

“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?” — Malcolm X quotes

“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”— Malcolm X quotes

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.” — Malcolm X quotes

“Anytime you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.” — Malcolm X quotes

“All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.” — Malcolm X quotes

“A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.” — Malcolm X quotes

“A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.” — Malcolm X quotes

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”— Malcolm X quotes

“A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not in reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.” — Malcolm X quotes